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SNAKE STONES OF CEYLON.
baking
Powder
Ctaey Will Care the Kite of a Cobra, the
Moat Deadly of Serpent?.
The so-called "snake stones " of Ceylon
water. His food consists chiehy of fish,
at catching1 which he is an adept. He
knows better than anybody else where
to find the cat, the ffalo, the perch
and innumerable other fish. Driftwood
USE OF A
PASSPORT.
Traveler
ha Singular Experience of
in Oerniuny.
"Mine is rather a bard case," said a
ABOUT ALLIGATORS.
, they are supposed to have in curing the
; bites of venomous serpents. Becreey is
; maintained as to the method of their
; manufacture, whic h !- a lucrative busi
' ness carried on hy monks, who supply
the merchants of India with them.
; They are employed in the familiar man
j ner by being placed on the wound, their
! absorbent material sucking up the blood
mm, mmK. mmmmm i m m H ! and incidentally the venom, as is
j claimed. There is plenty of authentic
and bad, gentle and harsh, loyal and ' evidence of remarkable cures per
in otistant, truthful and hvpocrital. I formed bv such snake stones, though
are celebrated for the efficacy which serves him for fuel, and i-lothes, tobac- discouraged graduate of a young ladies'
ABSOLUTELY PORE
co, spirits and a few necessaries are se
cured by an occasional day's labor as a
longshoreman. rou-.ta bout or farm hand
IN THE AZORES.
ne Bad Habit Whlrh the Kept lie Una In.
herlted Hunting- In Florida.
"It was my fir:t hunting trip in Flor
ida, and I was anxious to shoo! an alli
gator; so I snatched up my gun lfore
the camp was half made and wandered
along the bank of the Indian river
looking for one. Although I wanted
bip game. I did not despise the small,
and so carried a double-barreled breech
loader, one barrel of which threw ball
and the other shot. I had a splendid
retriever, too, for which I had paid a
pretty sum, and ! expected him to earn
his price.
"It was not long before I came upon
a little flock of 'm ts, a curious water?
fowl, looking Hke a cross between a
duck and a hen. I fired into the
flock and killed two. My dog dashed
in after them, and retrieving
one, brought it ashore. When he turned
to go after the other it was gone. I
thought it strange, and so did the dog,
evidently, for he swam all about look
ing for it. Suddenly he give a yelp,
struggling violently for a moment in
the water and then disappeared beneath
the surface.
"I had found my alligator. That
thought struck me all at once. And he
had found my expensive dog, and I did
not like the meeting one little bit. Not
knowing how big the brute might bo,
and having had no experience of alli
gators any way, I felt genuinely afraid
to tackle this unseen, noiseless foe and
go to my dog's rescue. Wading cau
tiously in, I leaped upon a fallen tree
which lay half in and half out of the
water a few yards from shore. On
the other side of It the river be
came suddenly deep, and here I could
ee my poor dog, held under water in
the jaws of a good-sized alligator, and
slowly drowning. The alligator was
taking things coolly. lie was in no
hurry. Nature had fitted him on pur
pose to drown animals in his jaws.
while he breathed freely in the air
above. His nostrils were on top of his
upper jaw at the end, and he was thus
able to keep them just above surface of
the water, while my dog was wholly
immersed.
"Quick as a flash I fired both barrels
at him. The bullet struck the water
just above his head and recocheted rods
and rods away, and the shot kicked up
a little ripple above him and that was
all. He dived deeper and moved off
with my dog and I never saw either of
them again. That was my first experi
ence with an alligator.
"The next one I met was lying bask
ing in the sun on a mud flat. I crawled
cautiously up within gunshot and be
fore firing watched the curious creature.
I was astonished to see a liittlo plover
settle on his ugly head and began to
pick, pick, pick among the big brutes'
scales. Thought I, 'My little fellow,
you will be snapped up by those cruel
jaws for your impertinence.' Presently
the plover got around to the alligator's
nose, still picking, picking, and the big
jaws began to open slowly. They
opened a In .ut a foot and to my surprise
the little plover walked right inside
and began to pick more vigorously than
ever among the horrid teeth. I laughed
so that Usfl alligator took alarm and
waded into deep water; not without
holding his jaws open long enough,
however, for the plover to come out of
his mouth and fly away.
"I afterward learned that this species
of plover greedily eats the water leeches
which fasten on the alligater's gums
and other pests which burrow under
his scales, and the big lizard will not
hurt the bird so usefull to him.
"My third alligator I shot dead and 1
had the pleasure of skinning him. I
learned then how t he brute can hold his
mouth wide open under water, without
letting anything go down his throat or
windpipe. Then- is a valve in the back
of its mouth which can be made to shut
off the mouth completely from the
throat, and as the upper jaws lift up
ward and the nostril.-, are on ton, as I
aid before, the creature can breathe
without show ing anything above water,
but the tip of his nose.
"Everybtxly knows that an alligator
is well supplied with teeth, but few
know that the baby alligator is born
with all its teeth in place. They are
conical on t..p and hollow at the base.
The new ones come up and shove their
conic al tops into the hollow base of the
old ones, gradually forcing them out.
This shedding and renewing of teeth
goes on all its life. Moreover a baby
alligator probably grows more, in pro
portion, than any other animaL It
comes out of a shell no bigger than a
goose egg. From the start It has to
fear the cannibalistic appetite of its
father. It is a curious fact that his
ancient ancestors had the same trick,
for in the fossilized bodies of the male
plesiosaurus have been found the fos
silized fragments of baby plcsiosauri.
Her finalities depend largely on the in
dividual, and the individual varies with
mood and environment. She is not cut
out of the ideal, nor is she drawn from
debasement. She is primarily human,
as man is; a compound of brain and
body, of strength and weakness, of
generosity and selfishness, of charity
and prejudice, of altruism and egotism,
of affection and aversion. Some wom
en are f:ir better, some wom"n arc far
WOtas than the mass; but, better or
worse, they are fundamentally unlike
one another, and often unlike them
selves. I'oets and novelists may, to a
great degree, be responsible for the
arcragc man's opinion of woman. The
poets have ordinarily used her as a
vehicle of passion and romance; as a
source of light to set off the darkness of
men's sins. She has been portrayed as
their better angel, as turning them
from vicious courses, as comforting
them in illness and affliction, as recom
pensing and blessing them after all
their trials with her unalterable love.
science is as yet reluctant to place any
belief in them.
Sir J. E. Tennent, to whrse work on
Ceylon a writ- r in he Washington Star
is indebted, tells o: an occasion when he
was riding along a jungle path on the
island, and he saw one or two natives
who were sppTOachingSttddenly dart off
from the road and return immediately
with a cobra, the most deadly of all
serpents, grasped by the head and tail.
The man tried to' place the snake in a
covered basket, but bandli 1 it SO ines
pt rtlv that it seii ;! hiia by the finger
There la Romance to Be Found Hidden In
Bloody History.
In 1580 the Azores came under the
power of Spain, and in the history of
the next twenty years their name is fre
quent as the favorite battleground of
the English and Spanish fleets. The
partiality was, indeed, according to
Macmillan's Magazine, mainly on the
side of the former, and for a good
reason. These islands lay right in the
track of all vessels Bailing to and from
that enchanted region known then to
all men as the B inish Main. On the
highest peak of Terceira, whence in
clear weather the sea could be scanned
for leagues around, tre raised two
columns, and by thc:n a man watched
night and day. When he saw any sails
approaching from the west he set a flag
upon the western column, one for each
sail: if they came from the east a siini-
get a position as a
haven't had experi-
im never allowed to
: get u;y experience?"
r ) " radox was per
aen officer, mentioned
Wolff in "The Coun-
and retained lbs h Id for a few seconds. lar sign was set up on the eastern col
Blood flood ami Intense pain appeared umn.
1 nib own waist cloth
GOUNOD'S STREET CONCERT.
How Ho and Two Other Musicians Aided
a Needy Artist In l'aria.
A poor, worn-out musician, carrying
a violin which he was too feeble to play,
w as met with in Paris by three young
students of the conservatoire. In re
sponse to his request for alms they
searched their pockets, the united con
tents of which yielded only sixteen
sous and a cube of resin. Thereupon,
says Temple l!ar, one of them proposed
to take the old man's violin and accom
pany the roices of his companions No
sooner said than done.
Commencing with a solo upon the
theme of the "Carnival of Venice," a
large concourse of listeners was soon
attracted. Then came a favorite cava
tina from "La Dame Blanche," sung in
such a manner as to keep the audience
spell-bound, and yet again the trio from
"Guillaume Tell." By this time the
poor old man was galvanized into life
and activity by t he artistic performance.
He stood erect, and, with his stick, di
rected the concert with the authority
of a practiced leader. Meanwhile con
tributions of silver and even gold rained
into the old man's hat. To his aston
ished and grateful demand to know
who were his benefactors he r ived
from the first the name of Faii and
from the others the response of lope
and Charily.
"And you do not even know mine,"
Bobbed the poor musician: "my name is
Chapner, and for ten years I directed
the opera at Strasburg. You have
tared my life, for I can now go back to
mj- native place, where I shall be able
t" teach what I can no longer perform."
The young violinist was Adolph Her
mann, the tenor was Gustav Roger and
the originator of the charitable scheme
was Charles Gounod.
to follow. As
other native undid
and took from it two snake stones, each
the size of a sni 11 almond, intensely
black and highly polished, though ex
tremely light. 'I heme he applied to
each wound inflh t d by the teeth of the
cobra. They attacked themselves close
ly, the blood that oozed from the bite
being rapidly Imbibed by the porous
substance. After three or four minutes
they dropped off and the Buffering of
the man seemed to have subsided He
twisted his fingers until the joints
creaked and went on his way without
concern. It has been ascertained with
certainty that these snake stones are
usually nothing more than piece;, of
burned bone. The Mexican recipe for
for making a snake stone is to take a
fragment of deer's horn of any conven
ient size and shape, cover it with
grass, inclose both in a thin piece of
sheet copper and place the parcel in a
charcoal fire until the bene is well
charred When cold remove the cal
cined horn from its envelope, when it
will be found to be a solid black fibrous
substance. It will then be ready for
immediate use.
MISERY IN MOROCCO.
HOW TO LAND A BLACK BASS.
Sunifl Jiliitf That Kvery Fisherman Does
Not Know.
"When a black bass is hooked, the
only way you can judge of his move
ments and intentions is by the sense of
feeling exerted through the rod and
line, and by watching the line at its
point of contact with the surface of
the water from which point never re
move your eye until he is brought safe
ly to bag,'" says Charles Frederick Dan
fort h in the New England Magazine,
"lie w ill resort to every means in his
power to get rid of the remorseless
Steel, sometimes breaking water fouror
live times. When a fish is seen to be
making pell-mell for the surface, and is
bound to get there no matter what hap
pens, he can often be checked, just be
fore he breaks water, by moving the
rod quickly and steadily to the right or
left, keeping a taut line, of course, all
the while; but, should this not succeed
and he breaks water in spite of you,
lower the point of the rod a little, other
wise it may be smashed. Care must be
taken in this in order that he may not
throw his weight and bring the whole
force of his jump to bearon the straight
taut line or fall back on the taut line
either of which is extremely liable to
produce the result spoken of. If you
get a strike when trolling keep the line
taut and the boat in motion, slacken
ing in speed somewhat, of course; for
give him but a few inches of slack and
up he goes into the air like a rocket and
is gone."
A Frank Fopc.
Pope l'ius the Ninth once granted an
audience to a French lady of high sta
tion who threw herself at his feet and
devoutly thanked hini for the restora
tioii of lr health. "Iut how have I
done ii inquired the pope. "I pro
cured . .. king that belonged to your
holin she n pU id. "One of my
Stockings?1 "Yes; I put the talisman
The Sultan Inly Maintains ills Tower hy
Keeping the Tribes at War.
Written law there is none. Prisoners
languish in chains - :ae innocent, some
guilty; but: says;, writer in the Fort
nightly Review, they are condemned
without trial or relea ted only through
bribery. I find no security for life or
property. The rich deny or bury their
wealth, which is unearthed by threats
and confiscated by torture. The poor
lie down and starve. I see tribes of
hardy mountaine rs in constant revolt
against the sultan. I cann t see that
the sultan in anv sense ro rns any
thing or anybody. He makes no roads,
builds no harbors, fosters no trade, ad
ministers no justice; he only keeps his
pla-.-e by setting one tribe to plunder
another or by keep! lg whole popula
tions in a state of i irvation, and hence
unable to resist his exactions.
As he plays off the tribes w ithin so
lie plays off the nations without. Ho
keeps out their influence by fomenting
their rival jealousies. In Tangier itself,
the diplomatic capital of Morocco, there
is not a wheeled carriage. Win? Be
cause there is not sutlicient cohesion
among the consulates and legations to
get a carriage road made. This is
called the status in quo and is some
times lauded as an admirable policy.
Look beyond Tangier: I see between
ranges of metalliferous mountains, upon
whose slopes herds of wild hrses,
enough to set up the continent with
cavalry, or tame cattle for it:, commis
sariat, could be raised, vast alluvial
plains, well watered, utterly untouched
by industry, yet capable of bearing
grain and fruit enough to Supply half
F.urope wheat, oranges, lemons, In
dian corn, sugar, grapes, olives, dates,
bananas, and every kind of vegetables.
I see a great navigable river, the Lebon,
down which all this produce might be
floated, between Fez and the Beacoast,
for rapid export. Not a steam plow or
aharrowora thrashing machine will the
sultan permit; no-, a square foot will he
sell; not a steame- or trading boat may
ply upon rivers which should be at once
the boundaries of teeming and prosper
ous provinces and the arteries of cos
mopolitan commerce.
A LINGUISTICS
Origin and
MENAGERIE.
and
'My fourth and last alligator I cap- on my diseased f .t andithas been com
tured alive with the aid of a daring n-
jrro hunwr. Hy means of a squealing,
hungry littif pi tied to a tree a short
way from the river bank we enticed a
fine, medium-sized alligator to crawl up
the bank and a little way into the k''v
after the succuleat porker. Then we
got between him and the river, and
with a singular boldness and agility my
hunting companion jumped astride ths
back of ths scaly beast and. bending
down, grasped one of its short forelegs
in each hand, and by main strength
dragged them back and yanked them
ppon the alligator's back; for all the
woi'kl like crossing a man's arm behind
him Jn this undignined position the
alligator fell forward on its belly and
throat, and could only iasn i
in impotent rage. It was not hard to
til it up after that, bat it seemed to me i
a dsngerous way to 'monkey' with a '
'irator. " N. Y. Tribune.
THEY'RE ALL DIFFERENT.
Nobody Ever Saw Two Women Who
Were .lust Alike.
One of the constitutional opinions of
the average man is that women are all
alike, writes Junius Henri Browne in
the Ladies' Home Journal. It crops
out In his speech pen illy, some
times in the way of kin.: and sym
,...,),,. ,.ff..nr in the wav f krision
J'OllIJ, w. - .
and contempt. W lien a wi
'me great wrong u
pletely cured " 'Madam," replied the
pope, a little I .'iciously, "fortune has
been very kin I i you. You need only
put on one of my stockings and your
foot is healed, while 1 put on both my
stocking:-, every morning and I can
hardly walk."
PHARAOH WITH A PISTOL.
has for-
bv her :
husbai. 1 when smother ha: sa nnci
herself for : children, we h - IS
Wt Ilk., n . w i" We hear- ' same 1
thin ir if she h;. -eeived her
RetuarkiiMe Anachronisms of the Artist
of Aliysslnla.
We found the walls of the churches
in Abyssinia covered with pictures of
Scriptural history and the walls of the
cathedral with the exploits of Johannes,
say - a writer in the Century. His vic
tories over the Egyptians at t'.orra ami
in the valley of Gundet are fully repre
sented in tones as florid as those of ad
vert i i'lg posters at home. The native
artist does not make up for crudeness
of color by the accuracy of his drawing,
and if these pictures have anj- merit
it is in their originality of treatment,
for instance, in the cathedral of Gun
det. in a picture representing the
Israelites crossing the Red sea, Pharoah
carries in his right hand the latest
specimen in six-shooters, and in his left
hand he holds a pair of opera glasses,
while the" Egyptian host sport Reming
ton rifles. All the movement of figures
is from right to left, and in all pictures
heads are full-faced, with the exception
of Satan and the hated Egyptians, who
are painted in acute profile, to show
their lock of honesty and pood faith
and their inability to look yclu square
Sieuilicnce of Qt
Oueer sayings.
Let us take a turn with the animals
and insects of metaphor. The Scotch
have a saying: "You hare a bee in your
bonnet." The meaning is that the head
had a new idea or fan Sy that is for the
time paramount. "Your l ead is full of
bees," is an old-time phrase meaning
that dreamy theories have taken pos
session of the brain. The connection
between bees and the soul was once
generally maintained; hence Mahomet
admits bees to Paradise. The moon
was called a "bee" by the priestesses of
Ceres, and the word lunatic, or moon
struck, still means one with "bees in
his head."
"The wolf at the door" is a common
expression in all countries, and we say
of a ravenous eater, "he has a wolf in
his stomach." It implies hunger, star
vation. It is said 1 at there are people
who use the term literally to frighten
their young children into habits of in
dustry and economy, so that the fright
ful wolf of hunger may never appear at
their doors.
"A frog in the throat" is a common
expression referring to a husky speaker.
"I smell a rat" has tong be -n a pop
ular saying when some mystery has
been discovered or a hidden i lew found.
It was an Irish barrister . :. got off
the mixed metaphor: "I sraeli a rat, I
see him waving in the air, bat H ve are
careful we shall nip him in the bud."
THEY LIVE IN BOATS.
Hundreds of FamLiit-- Float tp autf iioWB
the (.treat Kivers.
A Memphis writer introduces to the
public a strange population who are
counted as residents of that city, al
though most of them were born on the
Mississippi or one of the streams empty
ing into it, and have never lived on dry
land The people occupy a floating set
tlement of house boats. The boats are
sometimes named, and many of them
are neatly painted and show signs of
comfortable furnishings, judging from
lace curtains at ;he windows and pic
tures to be seen hacging on the walls of
the interior.
Hither in those days came up out of
the mysterious western seas the great
argosies laden With gold and silver and
jewels, with silks and spices and rare
woods, wrung at the cost of thousands
of harmless lives and cruelties unspeak
able from the fair lands which lie be
tween the waters of the Caribbean sea
and the giant wall of the Andes. And
hither, when England, too, began to
turn her eyes to El Dorado, came the
great war galleons of Spain and Portu
gal to meet those precious cargoes and
convey them safe into Lisbon or Cadiz
before those terrible English sea wolves
could get scent of the prize.
HEADS ARE DIGGER NOW.
Cranium of All Nations, Thtmjrja Differ
ent, Are E!ilar;;l,i i)f;et.Uer.
It is interesting to observe how the
shape of a man's head acts as an index
to his nationality that is, if you know
how to consult the index. As a proof
of this, notice how long and narrow the
average American head is. Hats made
in England will not tit such a head at
all, the head being so long "fore and
aft" as to make the hat too wide at the
sides. With the German it is the re
verse, if any difference. The head of a
true Rhinelander is wide at the tem
ples; if the hat is the exact length, in
nine cases out of ten it has to be
stretched sideways in order to make it
tit. English heads are wide, but not SO
pronounced as those of the (iermancj.
There is more of a "sliding scale" with
them as to the relative length and
breadth. The Celtic bead is almost in
variably round or oval, and without
pronounced phrenological "bumps."
For general smoothness of the cranial
protuberance, the Italian comes next to
the Celts, either of the two besting the
classic Greeks in that respect. Odd as
it may seem, anatomists declare that
the Turkish skull is aim et identical
in shape, aize, etc., with that of the
enlightened nineteenth century inhab
itant of the fjnife : Hat deal
ers, such as makers, furnishers, etc..
say that the heads of all nations are
gradually growing larger. In 18(10 the
average hat used was to-day it
is Ifc.
CAT AND WEASEL.
Pussy Began the Fight, Hut Gats It Up
as a Bad Joh.
Puss had been watching a wheat
stack which yields her toll of a rat per
night, and one evening a weasel made
some inquiries.
By and by the weasel, in the pursuit
of a rat, popped out of a hole under the
stack, and puss instantly pounced upon
it, and caught it, happily enough for
her, round the neck.
Somewhat dubious, it would appear,
as to what manner of rat she liad in her
mouth, she brought it into the -house,
half throttled, and began mewing loud
ly. Presently the weasel revived, and
began to move away, puss instantly fol
lowing in pursuit; but she had caught a
tartar.
The little creature, with wide-open
mouth, and uttering a sharp, repeated
sound, like "kek, kck. leek," sprang
straight at pussy's nose, just missing it,
and this she did again and again. Its
fury was unbounded, and it was totally
fearless.
Sometimes pussy only saved herself
by a high jump and had to retreat, the
weasel viciously following, once corner
ing pussy and forcing her to take a high
arched spring.
For several minutes the fight went
on until pussy was fairly frightened
into retreat. The weasel was ap
parently about one-twentieth of the
cat's size, but its viciousness and cour
age were beyond comparison.
seminary. "1 can
teacher because I
ence, and if I a
teach, how am I t
A somewhat simi1
pet rated by a Gern
by Mr. Henry W
try of thcVosges." Tiiis traveler had
been wandering about Metz asking
questions and seeing the sights, and he
says:
On my return to the station, I found
a surprise awaiting me. The German
police had found me out; not a difficult
task, since I purposely went about quite
openly.
However, that, it appeared, made no
difference. There, at the entrance to
the station, stood a Prussian gendarme,
all on the alert, looking very ferocious
with what the German song calls "a
moustachioed air." He was on the
lookout for me. and stopped me at once.
"Have yon a legitimation about you?"
he asked, rather gTUlfly.
"Yes; but do I want one? Am I not
entitled to travel in the country without
a passport?"
He looked angry, eyeing with disgust
my "Murray," which bore, all too plain
ly, upon its cover the title "France."
"I must see it. I hear you have been
about the town looking at things and
asking questions."
"It is true; that is what I am travel
ing for."
"I must see your passport."
"What? In defiance of the emperor's
regulations?"
"Do you not understand," said he,
pompously, "that I must sec your pass
port in order to be able to judge whether
or not you are entitled to travel with
out one?"
Here was logic, but logic which, how
ever feeble, must be heeded. I pro
duced my passport, and after having
studied for a tedious interval, he grave
ly announced that 1 was fitted to travel
; without one.
I v .- SE
Mating ' iad tli iste (Wai
1 "That"-: What I t ' i .-.-
;t Disuses fold i aii uixm.
k) Places.
ghid the
13 iie nut
1st But
For thi? show
'i . J0t ' get
t.itr.rrh of his.
.n thiii Dr. Sage's
rtre him,
tkinjr, ant! eptic,
wai-
IBS ar ar
Lilly wont
of aff
rid of
Won" I
Catarrh ;
By il i
cleans!:; jr c
Saprc' CarnrrJi y ,
cases of Citron . .,
as thou -a'-
Head Is cured
Catarrhal l . U
cured a If by
I In perfect faith, l'; ra
; Sage's Cat ai rh !y
, Dispensary Sled
! falo, N. Y.. .
: suffering from
j Head whom I
Now, if the con
! f they asked yon :;';. j for a
I positive care yo i 1 l ! . Here
j arc reputable va . - y a -; of honor
! able dealing: f doll trs and
; a great name u . oi mrva
iney oencva . i
worth a trial ? Isa'l
ble to cataxj h
. Dr.
. be worst
i the Tiead,
Col 1 hi the
I tpli a; ions,
deved and
rs of Dr
I ic World's
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i. 't it
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WE LOVE MEDICINE.
Are a
A Doctor Says That Americans
Nation of Druc-Takera.
I think Americans should be described
as a nation of medicine takers. The re
turns from the sales of patent medicines
are astonishing, but no general practi
tioner is at all surprised at this, because
he has long since learned that hypo
chondria exists almost universally, and
that medicine taking is the great de
light of an enormous percentage of
mankind, says a physician in the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
One great object a doctor should have
in view is to cure with as few doses as
possible, and I believe that ninety-nine
out of one hundred medical students
commence practicing with this idea be
fore them. If their experience is like
mine they have somewhat let down in
their efforts in this direction, and if
they have not done so they have cer
tainly offended quite a large number of
patients.
There seems little to choose between
the sexes in the matter of a desire to
take medicine regularly, and it is often
impossible to persuade an apparently
rational-minded patient that a cure has
been effected, that do i lore medicine is
needed and that do! hing but good diet
and careful habit . are required to build
up the constitution.
A number of doctors save themselves
from falling fn-m grace by prescribing
a harmless tonic alter effecting a cure,
but those who pride themselves in dis
posing of cases by aid of a dozen doses
or less seldom attain any great popu
larity. The often quoted and much vaunted
practice in China of paying a physician
while his patient is well and stopping
his pay during sickness could never be
introduced sr. into this coun
try, because so many people who are
perfectly well arc prepared to file affi
davits that they are dangerously sick,
that no doctor under the China regime
would be able t o earn his boarcL
si "an
iu UlwUilfl ilKl
as
Hca: fa!
Chapped Hand
Bcmoves ar.
WHITE l
Specially ,:
Cure
Is, Bui as Etc
Prevents -OancLrr 3T.
. f IP.
Hard ''ater.
Names of Pennsylva:-, la To
Villages in southeastern Pennsyl
vania, andeven hundreds (townships)
in Delaware, not infrequently take their
names from old inns. l'.ird in Hand,
Lancaster county, l'a., is an example of
the sort, and in northern Delaware the
old Red Lion inn has given name to a
village and a hundred. The village and
the hundred of Black Bird in Delaware
also probably take the common name
from the sign of an old inn. Fox
Chase, in the lower edge of Chester
county. Pa,, was the picturesque name
of a village that grew up about an
ancient tavern, but the post office de
partment has ruthlessly changed it
to Appleton.
THE RATTLESNAKE'S TAIL.
WHISTLI.IG A GIFT.
F
'it
16!
LOU
Medicine t
SUITS,
- Kansas.
PANTS, COATS
orOi ert
Will
SAT1SFAC
made to order.
:t- dc lring
1 BED.
Rattle Is
How the Reptile'
Produced.
The structure from which the rattle
snake takes his name the rattle con-
: or more solid,
round the end of
themselves, says
are merely dense
al out et skin of
... in the face. It is a deplorable tact, ana
. I , An1 l one which, ladies will say at once, only
Involved he- father in debt. iY.Buia V whio-itv of
sent is due So the fact that some- a F- hs-L,
L I1C 1j LllU'iOiin. - - " "I
these compositions are always presented
by the softer sex, generally showing
their naughtiness by exhibiting their
tonguea The church painter goes 6C
far ss to question the gallantry of St.
xenraua. - - the Abvssian patron saint by
gentle, joys-. , "win.r that warrior, instead of doing
very circumsianc; vyiuv w"- -- 7 DC ncr the
nounces her bad, harsh,
bvnocritical on instinct.
wholly rhxht or wrong. She is good
Sn. uiSjphbp'v 1 a
are sentimentalists, and that more r.
are cynics. The former are alw;
praising women; the latter are gene
ly sneering at or decrying her; but bo
think that she has only one natui
tv, AMthnpnt&list believes her to be
good,
c
inconstant, ! hattle with the dragon, as spearing the
Neither is graceful, undulating form of a long-
The colonv i- 0
tives from twer
the Mississippi
Moored side by
fifty boats were
who learned tl:
began their a&'
far north as Ho
population, ft r.
boats have bees
long time, the
families is not
inquirer is toh
house has char
Orleans or sow
The house-bo
..c1 e up of
id 11 1 iMieia
Inedbv
iter,
aiies
sists mainly of ti
horny rings, place
the tail. These rin
the Quarterly Revii
portions of the gc
the body.'but the rattle has also a solid
foundation of bone, f ir the three last
bones of the tail become united to- !
gether in one solid whole or core,
grooved where the bones join, while ;
they increase in size toward the hinder
end of the complex bone thus formed. J
This bony core is invested by skin also
marked by grooves, which correspond
with those at the junctions of the three
bones, and this skin becomes much
thickened, and so forms an incipient, j
imperfect rattle of such young snakes
as have not yet cast their skin. When
if is cast the skin investing the tail I
close to its termination is not cast off,
bat is held fast by the enlarged end of
the bony core before mentioned.
The piece of skin thus retained be
comes a loose ring in front of the incip
ient rattle, and thus forms a first joint
or nng of the future perfect rattle.
What a lrofessi: ial Lady Whistler Says
About the Art.
Mrs. Alice Shaw, the celebrated
American whistler, has this to say of
her peer.' lar gift: "A clever whistler
must be born, not made. The natural
gifts necessary an a g 1 ear, a sound
pair of lungs, a ti e formation of
the cavity of the m regular teeth
and a flexibility ; . agility in the
orbicular and buccinatory muscles. The
strain on these muscles are great.
After an hour's practice I have been
compelled to ;; ply electricity to my
lips to get them into a normal condi
tion. I breathe like a singer, from the
diaphragm, and whistle as any artist
would sing. Trilling is to me as easy
and natural as ordinary speech. It is j
the notes which must be long sustained j
that are most difficult. My compass is
two and three-fourths octaves, I never i
whistle on an inward breath. My
notes are always directed outward.
The higher the note the closer my lips;
the lower the note the larger the orifice.
The possibilities of a whistle are almost
unlimited. The art is at present in its '
infancy. I phrase tnusi as do the most )
! careful singers. During my first per- ;
j formances my lips became so dry that
it was difficult to produce a clear, liquid
tone. I now use an ointment which 1
obviates that difii ally I practice an
hour sometimes m ne -daily, and this
has had a doubly beneficial effect. It
has not only en :han . d my proficiency
as a whistler: it has caused my chest to
! expand four inches in the last three
i years."
"Bummer" Not American Slanfp.
Americans get credit for a great deal
1 originates on the other
tic. The word "bum
. is not an American,
on, being found
aws of tffl o hundred
it was used to deoicr-
CENTRAL
h HOTFX !
J. H. J0HH1
Is centra ; I .
square west o
tional l;i!:'
Neat, clean a
in all ana I
always
best the
Charges
:i7
tpli
rkel
He;
id, hi If a
First Na
.1 sas Ave.
mf ihie
T ible
with the
V
v
rl I "
1
It's Just as Cfood rhe Crnrrr siirL
Proffering another brand. piirp n atrpt-nAt
is What we want, have uouanu now on h.-!.-?V
Wll certainly Me ooolten we use nor? bat the best,
And all shrewd dealers keep it, are you behind the rest ?n
r-
Oca
J. P.HAi IV, 8
T. b. Ll mo L.EY. V lee-Pres.
v. T.ROU8B. Assistant Cashier.
r s .joiiEs Cashier
NATION 4 ( ...
MEDICINE LCDGE, KANSAS f
T. P. HA I.I. .
W. T. ROUSK.
DIRECTORS:
C. S. ,T BBS.
X W. BLACK.
It. M. WOODWARD.
If. M OODWARD.
W. I . HI. AIR
r. T.. LXDLKT
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WOODWARD MFG. CO.,
R. M. WOODWARD, Manager.
HEAVY All LIGHT HARNESS
SINGLE AND D0U3lE. SADDLES MADE TO ORDER,
Wltfps and Quirts a special:?. D st material used
1 1 U I 1 h'iJi'i.' 11 .,.! t . . l . a
M7SD1CINE LODGE, -:- :- KANSAS.
j:.a.s. :
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a. ;.:.
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IS AT HIS OLD STAND,
On KANSAS A VTTNTTl?
MEDICINE LODGE, KANSAS,
Keady to handle all kinds oi Gram, urnish the Best and
Cheapest Seed, and also the best qualities and grades of
(joal. d;vt me a call when in need of anything in my line
H fl.rmiiw Tools
mmma "ww a. n AJtAJi ssflBsi VAILi
H. A. BEAT S,
Sharon , Kansas.
G-ang Plows,
Walking Plows,
Disk Harrows,
BES T GOODS!
Wheat Drills,
Lever Harrows,
Double Shovels.
LOWEST PRICES!
Will deliver at Medicine Lodge or Sharon.
Bipsvns Tab ales : one gives rHicf.
Ji i p;i ns Tabulcs core scrofula.
RipanS Talnilc rnio liHoiin ss.
Ripana Tabutai ours hives.
Ripans TaHuh : a si ;t idard remedy
Kipans T:iLuk' ci ic mjc.
a orcii
sonable.
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mi
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CAI'TION. Beware of dealer ob
tltntlnB shoes without V. I.. Ilonclmo
name and the prirc ntamped on bottom.
BMCta substitution nre Irnuiiulent and
subject to prosecution by law for ob-
inuiing mnut-y un
der false prefaces.
I fe.t hnHss as.
cv.br::". ASi
of slang' whi
side of the Al la
mer," for in:-t:'.n(
but an English c
in the market
years ago, trhert
nate a retail dealer in lili who peddled
his goods outside the market a'tid with
out a license. A transition from an un
licensed peddler to a disreputable loafer
was one which came easily and natural
ly in the course of lime-
met m
rr7ZZZL K nre TCTUP Tk r-7Jr
it mm? w,iZ7
J xn
W. L. DOUGLAS
S 3 S H O E GENTLEMEM.
A aennlne sewed shoe that will not rls 1 flnji Omir
seamless siuootb lnsiie, flexible, more comfortable, stylish,
and oiirable than any oth r stioe ever sold at tbe prloa,
tqiialK eiiHtom-niade t-ho-s c st I u from $1 to SS.
Tbe only 8.3.0O Sb.o made with two complet
sol es, securely wwM at the utKle eje fns sbown in oat).
" " g" ii Hill "i tur,ii wen sooea sola Ml
""" priifj, ior Bucn eti. . iv rip, na mil only ono sole M
to a nam.w strip t leather on the edge, and when
Tne two antes or t h.- w. .. riilfcr a a ati
when worn throuKb can be repaired a manv times 1
necessary, aat he v v ill never ripor loosen from thenppt
. . - w . , n . . 1. lyiimrttr UtunDK VO
to buy client) . it sh(M.asol1 at I
naviuir ..11 V ."Il.'lir;ili-e to ivmi
Si and a. Klne t'lf. Y
ewe.l :.. 5(1 I-ulteeHiKlV.
rm: tfA. Sfl k'lno -.ie- mtm a
aii'i 5-.U worktnrau
-h'jeS: Iji
S i.OO Hand Sewed; IM
and
a.' . i.(0 and
Hf.7."i Bebool Shoal
SI. 7.1 Best Dos
are of the samel
standard of merit.
II o-Ito exrlaaiTe sate to sbe denier senersl mi i inn.ti vkm I
siteati. H rite lor catalogue. If not lor sale 1.1 j'o-r plaro .i-nd direct to Facts
fating: kind, aize and width wanted. Footage free. V. i. Ooazlaa, iirocktonTpv
C
ence of ai
ok J tltei
i-at the he.-.
I his babit
her ri er ell
owner, of course, pays
tUe
I us a
the
ai 3 the
of the
to Sew
i ne same pr t
molt, a fresh 1
joint to the perfej
formed every time
Thus the perfect ra
ly to consist of a nn
more or less loose,
this way a rattle
itcd at each
additional
being thus
in is shed,
s ultimate-
dry, hanl,
as, and in
1- .-t of as
many as twenty-o' e sifetlnr rattling
rings. It is the sh 1 1 : ' n r of . these rinsrs
by a violent and rap! . iagofthe'
end of the snake's tail :; a produces i
the celebrated rati". in x sound a sound I
Electricity In Warfare.
A clever piece of work was recently
done by the telegTaph battalion of an
English regiment in the course of some
night experiments. An extensive cable
was rapidly laid over the roughest pos
sible ground, and that, too, without
the slighest assistance from search
lights, and the lieutenant general was
thus enabled not only to find a lost
brigade, but to control the simulta
neous advance and attack of three sep
arated brigades on an earthwork at
midnight. The telegraph, in fact, ren?
dered a most difficult and doubtful op
eration comparatively easy and certain.
At some late maneuvers, too, a highly
useful attempt was made to produce on
a map at headquarters a plan of battle,
step by step, as it progressed many
miles away, by n reports wired
from the fiehL Tho attempt did not
succeed because the maps available
were not on a sufficient scale: but the
feasibility of the pi an was demonstra
ted, while its value to a general direct
ing operations over a wide held is ot
vious. With lar pre F'ale maps, a bal-
tt Corel Coli,Coasra, Care Throat Cro Tr.Caen
ta, Wncojir.e Cough. 2r5rchitis ard Asthma. A
certain rare '(cr Consumption in flrrt itaf st, and
sure rtlitr tn tflvance 1 ta? vim
Vsure r
on wi'
Br?t
bottles
teethe ercslVit tfTe-t after tthir.te IS
aiert everywhere. L-irw9
i fww
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Bt. Girl r Ixiy can use it. Want
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6 lbs. By express safe delivery
guaranteed. TbouHandsIn use
"nl'TRor. fW-rxl ; hy bank draft.
ur I'. O01.. ...-r.it letter.
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Masaa4atftf 1 1 1 tfi 1 1 tt t
LNT
tongued woman.
no rent. To. esupe it he took, to ths naner baar.
Irwin anH inrrpi!S(yl nbacrvilM? staflf. it in
which may be compared to the rattUng. Ukel to made a most important aid
of a number of peas in a rapidly-shaken - T,ri ttMin
to the strategist and the tactician.
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